The University of Tartu Library is happy to invite you to participate in our traditional Open Access Week events.An information day will take place on the 24th of October, where we, together with the University of Tartu Press, will introduce the different means of open access publishing that we offer. A seminar with panel discussion will be held on the 25th of October, where we will discuss the following topics: What are the European Commission’s and the Estonian research funder's positions on…See More

Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Association of African Universities and the Academy of Science for South Africa, will be hosting the prestigious international Berlin 10 Open Access Conference which will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.As is tradition with the conference, it will explore the transformative impact that open, online access to research can have on scholarship, scientific discovery and the translation of results…See More

Open access to the results of scientific and medical research has potential to play an important role in international development. This conference will discuss the benefits of open access publishing in an African context, from the perspective of both readers seeking access to information, and researchers seeking to globally communicate the results of their work.Hosted by BioMed Central, Open Access Africa 2012, now in its third year, will bring together researchers, librarians, university…See More

EIFL-FOSS and EIFL-OA are co-organizing a webinar coinciding with Open Access Week 2012. The topic will be providing access across open access journals and open access repositories, with a focus on the free open source Open Harvester Systems (OHS) software.The Open Harvester Systems is a free metadata indexing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its…See More

The open discussion among young researchers, representatives of research funding institutions, science authorities, publishers, librarians and other open access stakeholders is organized by Kaunas University of Technology in partnership with The Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers, The Association of Lithuanian Serials, The Lithuanian Research Libraries Consortium. This event completes the series of workshops organized with the support of EIFL:Why OA is important for…See More

Iryna Kuchma's Blog

Through EIFL-OA, 13 library consortia, libraries and organizations in Africa and Eastern Europe were awarded small grants in 2011 to implement national and institutional Open Access advocacy campaigns to reach out to research communities and Open Access publishing initiatives. Through small grants and support from their own institutions, the projects engaged in a wide variety of campaigns and activities, including: holding workshops, creating websites, building institutional repositories,…

To celebrate the launch of International Open Access Week in Russia, International Academy of Business and New Technologies, Yaroslavl, hosted a webinar "Knowledge Management: Open Digital Educational Resources and Archives" on October 14. Watchor download…

Hi Iryna, what a surprise you give me. Yes, I registed the CAS seminar. The world is sometimes really small! Thank you for your kindly inquire. I in fact have some questions about OA. These days I am trying to learn other univerversity librarians' successful experinces in advocating OA in Campus, but I get less information around how to introduce( or push) OA resources to patrons. Integrated them in OPAC? including them in discovery system? Could you give me some suggestions? Examples and eye-bird view articles are both appreciated.

Hello Iryna, Thank you for your invitation. I am glad to join you, and Open Access Week. It is a pity that we library still has not launched any Open Access Week events or other advocatings event in campus, but National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) will host one seminar for 2012 Open Access. This is a good beginning I think. I am a librarian, as far as I know, our faculty in fact eagar for the knowleger around OA: open publishing, open licencing, copyright, etc. I wish we librarians can do more as quickly as possible......

Midlands State University would like to carry out some activities for this year's Open Access Week. As first time participants we definetely need some ideas to make this event successful. What can we really do?